HydraTools and minimal images

David Mitchell david.mitchell at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 16:32:06 UTC 2008


I'm very interested in OB-Web

Tried loading it yesterday through Monticello, but couldn't figure get
it running.

I'm going to keep trying, but pointers would be useful.

On Feb 13, 2008 12:34 AM, Colin Putney <cputney at wiresong.ca> wrote:
>
> On 12-Feb-08, at 8:03 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>
> > This sounds exactly like what I was looking for. Is their stuff
> > available to look at for learning how to integrate such a mechanism?
> > I'm not interested in any of their proprietary IP just in learning
> > how you hook this together in OB. Any other examples?
>
> I believe they use FFI to call out to a C library (called "gci") that
> implements the low-level communications with Gemstone. The code is
> publicly available here:
>
> http://seaside.gemstone.com/ss/
>
> In particular, see the GemStone Tools project.
>
> Another thing to look at is OB-Web. It's less "remote" than the
> Gemstone or Spoon approach, in that the class browser runs in-image
> rather than remotely. What *is* remote are the widgets. They're
> implemented in Javascript and run in Safari or Firefox, communicating
> with the image via AJAX. It's available from the repository below, but
> has some dependencies - let me know if you want to play with it.
>
> http://source.wiresong.ca/ob
>
> Colin
>
>



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